{"id":1542,"date":"2015-07-16T17:34:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T22:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2015-07-16T17:34:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T22:34:44","slug":"the-iran-deal-roundup-ctd-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/07\/16\/the-iran-deal-roundup-ctd-13\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iran Deal Roundup, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steven Benen at MaddowBlog comments <\/a>on the press conference Obama ran concerning the Iran deal<\/a>:<\/p>\n

And then Obama did something I\u2019ve never seen him \u2013 or really, any president \u2013 do. From the transcript:<\/p>\n

\u201cAll right. Have we exhausted Iran questions here? I think there\u2019s a helicopter that\u2019s coming. But I really am enjoying this Iran debate.
\n\u201cTopics that may not have been touched upon, criticisms that you\u2019ve heard that I did not answer\u2026. I just want to make sure that we\u2019re not leaving any stones un-turned here.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s really worth watching the video of this portion, because I\u2019ve never seen anything like it at a White House press conference. In effect, Obama wanted to hear every possible criticism \u2013 from Republicans, from Israeli officials, from the media, anyone \u2013 of the Iran deal so that he could explain, in detail, why those criticisms are wrong. …<\/p>\n

It conveyed an amazing level of confidence in the diplomatic agreement. Obama made it clear that no matter what anyone asked, argued, or complained, he knew<\/em> this deal is stronger than anything its (or his) critics could come up with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suspect historians are going to look at the performance of President Obama and put him in the same category as Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, and George Washington Carver (and many others) – a man who realized that he faced more critical judgments and harsher (and irrational) criticisms than a white person might in the same situation, and found a way to exceed expectations.\u00a0 From the mundane – an Administration practically free of scandal – to dealing with the emergencies of the day, from Republican leftovers to, perhaps, the Iran nuclear deal – he has been more than competent.\u00a0 While the evaluation of the Iran deal by experts remains to be well-publicized (or I’m too busy to look), history may label him as superb.<\/p>\n

Or, as Andrew Sullivan is wont to say with regard to Obama’s opponents, “Meep Meep, motherfuckers.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steven Benen at MaddowBlog comments on the press conference Obama ran concerning the Iran deal: And then Obama did something I\u2019ve never seen him \u2013 or really, any president \u2013 do. From the transcript: \u201cAll right. Have we exhausted Iran questions here? I think there\u2019s a helicopter that\u2019s coming. But \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}